Best bearings for K-series

[rj]

Which bearings should I choose for a high reving K-series engine?

 

And secondly where can I source them?

 

TIA

 

/regin

 

There is never enough time to do it properly, but there is always time to do it again

[Peter Carmichael]

If really high bearing loads, Vandervell VP2 from Minister for the big ends. Standard bearings are fine for the mains. Oily knows where the "uprated" non-VP2 big ends can be sourced, I'm sure. VP2 are not without their idiosyncrasies - they don't like acid substances, so starting the engine and not bringing the oil system up to temperature means that combustion by-product acids attack the bearing. Apart from that they are well proven.

[rj]

Thaks Peter,

 

If I'm not mistaken the so called uprated bearings are just 160BHP VVC bearings.

 

 

Heating up the engine properly is not a problem. The car is mainly used on track, and I change oil in average for every 200 miles(!) although I manged to do 300 miles on my last trackday 😳

 

/regin

[Rob Walker]

Hi Regin,

 

oil changed at 200 miles, can I have your old oil please

 

QED sell the VP2 bearings

 

Rob

[Johnty Lyons]

the last time I changed my big ends i rang Dave to get VP2 and he told me not to waste my money and gave me the part number for the Trophy bearings which I got direct from Tims stores 😬

 

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Edited by - Johnty Lyons on 27 Jul 2008 19:47:16

[rj]

Rob,

 

I change it often because I use the cheap ELF F1 oil.

 

Given the cost of a trackday I can't be bothered to save the oil, hence it's changed after each day!

 

Anyway I think I've found a source for the bearings almost directly from the tap :-)

 

Regin